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THM | Password Attacks

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Red Teaming | Password Attacks | Summary:

This room is designed to teach about various strategies and techniques used in cracking or guessing passwords. It covers both offline and online methods, including dictionary and brute-force attacks, rule-based attacks, and custom rules.

The room emphasizes password profiling, teaching users how to create effective wordlists using default, weak, leaked, combined, and username sources.

Other topics include keyspace techniques, CUPP (Custom Password Profile), and online attacks targeting FTP, SMTP, SSH, and HTTP login pages. Additionally, it introduces the concept of password spraying attacks.